Recycle Batteries Properly

In our daily life,
we use batteries everywhere—smoky alarm, TV controller, calculator, wireless
mouse and etc. After batteries “dead”, what should we do for them? Throw them
away as other trash? No, it will pollute our environment. No idea what to do
and just keep them in your house? Uh…we should figure out how to recycle those
batteries.

Choice:
Stop using single-use batteries.

In
the market, we have all different kinds of batteries that we could choose.
Before you turn those single-use batteries into trash, how about choose the rechargeable
batteries? It could reduce the amount of batteries that you use.

Prepare
before Recycling

Do
you know you should tape dead batteries before you recycle them? If not, you
should—it can reduce the risk of short circuit.

Button
cell batteries

You
need to tape both of positive and negative terminals. You just need to put one
piece of masking tape around the cell battery. If you have several cell
batteries need to be taped, you should tape them all together—use two piece of masking
tape; place all button batteries with the positive terminals against the tape;
then place the other piece of tape against the negative terminals.

All
other types batteries

No
matter it is AA, AAA, 9V and etc. You just need to tape the positive terminals
with masking tape.

Storage

Before
you send dead batteries to recycle, you should storage them in a dry and cool environment,
prevent them from sunshine. Use non-conductive storage to storage them, such as
plastic and cardboard container.

Recycle

There
are many organizations that help batteries recycling. You can look up a nearby
one by looking at yelp and google map. Choose one and send dead batteries to
them.

If
you have rechargeable batteries need to send for recycling, you can send it to
a Best Buy store.